Candidates don’t have to submit their final contribution and expense reports until after early voting starts. Candidates don’t have to disclose how much money they have on hand.

One person can set up shell corporations to funnel an unlimited amount of money to a candidate, nearly anonymously. Campaign forms are regularly filled out by hand, which are often hard to read, at times suspiciously so.

The shell corporation idea sounds like something from a third-world dictator's playbook, not a mild-mannered housewife from Sparks.

Those candidates understand what they're doing. By submitting forms late and in inscrutable handwriting they know that people will be less likely to carefully analyze them.

But fear not! A compromise wafts though the stuffy, cigar smoke-tinged halls of the Carson City sausage making factory.

As for the requirement that candidates file forms electronically, legislators agreed but pushed back the start date to 2011, when many of them will be forced out of office by term limits. (Emphasis mine)

That's right folks. Some in the legislature love transparency so much they'll pawn it off to the next batch of politicians.